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Acronyms and Abbreviations
**ACRONYMNS AND ABBREVIATIONS**
ADE - Eclipse/AWIPS Development Environment
AMQP - Advanced Messaging Queuing Protocol
API - Application Program Interface
ARSR - Air Route Surveillance Radar
ASR - Aggregation Service Routers
AWIPS - Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System
CAVE - Common AWIPS Visualization Environment
CONUS - Conterminous/Contiguous/Commercial United States
COTS - Commercial off the shelf
D2D - Display Two Dimensional
DAO - Data Access Object
DVB - Digital Video Broadcast
EDEX - Enterprise Data Exchange
ESB - Enterprise Service Bus
FOSS - Free and Open Source Software
FQDN - Fully Qualified Domain Name
GFE - Graphical Forecast Editor
GFS - Global Forecast System
GNU - GNUs Not Unix
GRIB - Gridded Binary
GUI - Graphical User Interface
HDF5 - Hierarchical Data Format 5
HQL - Hibernate Query Language
HTTP - Hypertext Transfer Protocol
JAR - Java Archive
JAXB - Java Architecture for XML Binding
JEP - Java Embedded Python
JMS - Java Messaging Service
JVM - Java Virtual Machine
JTS - Java Transaction Service
LDM - Local Data Manager
LSB - Linux Standards Base
MOS - Model Output Statistics
MPE - Multi-Programming Executive
NWS - National Weather Service
OCONUS - Outside Conterminous/Contiguous/Commercial United States
OSGi - Open Services Gateway initiative
PDO - Plug-in Data Object
PYPIES - Python Processing Isolated Enhanced Storage
QPID - Queue Processor Interface Daemon
RCP - Rich Client Platform
RGB - Red, Green, Blue
RPM - Redhat Package Manager
SOA - Service Oriented Architecture
SBN - Satellite Broadcast Network
SEDA - Staged Event Driven Architecture
SHEF - Standard Hydrometeorology Exchange
SQL - Structured Query Language
SSDD - Software System Design Description
SWT - Standard Widget Toolkit
UDP - User Datagram Protocol
UI - User Interface
URI - Universal Resource Locator
UUID - Universally Unique Identifier
VIZ - Visualization
XML - eXtensible Markup Language
YUM - Yellowdog Updater Modified